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BASRA, IRAQ - OCTOBER 18: People gather around a Land Rover as it arrives at the village Al Houta on October 18 2008 near Basra, Iraq. The trip by the 51 Sqn Royal Air Force Regiment Force Protection Wing was part of a 'key leader engagement' (KLE) visit to the village close to the Basra Airbase to recruit local labour and engage with the village shiek. Visits of this type are seen as key in efforts to continue winning the support of the local Iraqi population. Although improved security in the region has brought some benefits such as improved trade and commerce, much of the infrastructure remains in a poor state of repair. Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown has indicated that the number of UK troops could be scaled down - especially as the security situation in the south of the country continues to improve.
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Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) speaks during a campaign rally in the rain at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia, September 27, 2008.
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A puppy stands on a truck carrying people to be evacuated from the area in preparation for the approach of Hurricane Gustav in Batabano, on the southern coast of Cuba, August 30, 2008. Powerful Hurricane Gustav roared toward western Cuba on Saturday with 125 mph (205 kph) winds on its way to the oil-rich Gulf of Mexico after a deadly pass through the Caribbean.
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BANGKOK, THAILAND - AUGUST 30: A member of Anti-government People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) stands behind barbed wire outside Government on August 30, 2008, in Bangkok, Thailand. The protesters want to unseat the seven-month old coalition government lead by Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej.
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This undated photo released by the La Scala theater shows Giulio Bertola. The La Scala opera house says a long-time choir director Giulio Bertola has died after a long illness. La Scala on Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2008 confirmed Bertola's death Sunday. The Milanese opera house did not elaborate the cause of death. Bertola directed La Scala's choir from 1983-91 _ including eight opera premieres.
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Ultra-Orthodox Jews carry the body of Aryeh Leibish Teitelboim to burial during his funeral on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem December 2, 2008. Teitelboim was among the five hostages killed at the Jewish center and the more than 144 people dead in Mumbai after the attacks by Islamist militants on luxury hotels and other sites in India's financial capital.
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BANGKOK, THAILAND - DECEMBER 2 : Government supporters protest outside the Administrative Court where the Constitutional Court met in Bangkok on December 2, 2008 in Bangkok, Thailand. Thai Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat was banned from politics for five years and his party disbanded on Tuesday, plunging the country deeper into chaos and raising fears of a violent backlash by government supporters.
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Actor Viggo Mortensen gestures during a news conference to promote his latest film "Alatriste" in Tokyo on December 1, 2008. The film will be on the screens on December 13. Alatriste, played in the film by 47 year old US actor, is a unscrupulous 17th century adventurer in the movie, set in Spain's "golden age" under King Philip IV which coincided with the emergence of artistic giants such as Velasquez and the development of the "New World."
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Chelsea Clinton (L) and former US President Bill Clinton watch as US Democratic presidential candidate Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) speaks at the National Building Museum in Washington June 7, 2008. Clinton endorsed presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) to be the Democratic U.S. presidential candidate on Saturday and suspended her own White House bid less than a week after the Illinois senator secured enough support to win the nomination. Clinton's endorsement of Obama in a speech at the National Building Museum marked the beginning of efforts to reunite the Democratic Party after a long and divisive campaign battle that ended on Tuesday when Obama won the support of enough delegates to clinch the nomination.
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A tear runs down the face of U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) as he speaks about his grandmother who died earlier on Monday, during a campaign rally in Charlotte, North Carolina, November 3, 2008. On the eve of Tuesday's U.S. presidential election, Obama's grandmother Madelyn Dunham died after a battle with cancer.
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U.S. Democratic presidential candidates Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) and Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) (R) share a hug at the conclusion of the CNN/Los Angeles Times Democratic presidential debate in Hollywood, California January 31, 2008.
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Polish women speak backrounded by of a power plant chimneys where several Greenpeace activists take their camp at one of the top platforms in Patnow, some 80 kilometers east of city of Poznan, on December 2, 2008. Greenpeace activists scaled a 150-metre (500 foot) high smokestack at a power plant in central Poland to urge the government to agree to European environment reforms. Poznan hosts UN Climate Change Conference between December 01-12.
Kosovo Albanians wave the Albanian flag during a protest in Pristina on December 2, 2008. Several thousands Kosovars protested in the capital of Pristina against deployment of a European mission. The EU agreed in February to send the 2,000-strong EULEX mission to Kosovo to gradually replace a United Nations operation and oversee the police, judiciary and customs. The UN Security Council last week gave a green light to the planned EU mission which is likely to start its operation in Kosovo in next days under the UN umbrella.
A combination of pictures made on December 2, 2008 shows (FromL) Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang on February 16, 2008 in Havana, Congo's President Denis Sassou Nguesso on July 5, 2007 in Paris and Gabon's President Omar Bongo Ondimba on February 14, 2007 in Cannes. French anti-corruption activists on December 2, 2008 filed suit against the presidents of Gabon, Congo and Equatorial Guinea, accusing them of acquiring luxury homes in France with embezzled public money.
A vendor of boiled chickpeas called in Iraqi Arabic 'lablabeh' dishes out piping hot chickpeas to customers in central Baghdad on December 02 2008. Lablabeh a common dish across Iraq is eaten mainly in the winter and is garnished with lemon or orange juice and a dash of chilly pepper. It sells at 0.50 US cent a plate.
Black clad Israeli Orthodox Jews attend the funeral of Arieh Levish Teitelbaum, one of the Israeli victims of the Mumbai attacks, on December 2, 2008 in Jerusalem. Wailing and chanting psalms, thousands of people bid a final farewell today to the six Jews killed in last week's bloody Mumbai attacks and whose bodies were flown to Israel for burial.
